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Central Union High School District
Board of Trustees Meeting
April 16, 2013
Data Into Action
Central Union High School
District: LEA Plan Revision
Michael Butler, Public Works
April 16, 2013
DAIT Needs Assessment (Jan-Feb)
 Reviewed
school and district data and
documentation.
 Administered required State tools (APS, DAS,
ELSSA, and ISS).
 Conducted site visits to all three schools.
 Interviewed key community, school, and district
leaders.
 Synthesized key findings for District School
Leadership Team (DSLT).
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LEA Plan Development (Feb-Mar)
 Met
with District leadership and DSLT to report
findings and recommendations.
 Identified focus areas for LEA prioritization with
corrective actions and implementation steps.
 Solicited input from DSLT.
 Assisted district leaders in drafting revised LEA
Plan goals, strategies, and action steps.
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Key DAIT Areas for Improvement
 Alignment
of Curriculum, Instruction, and
Assessment: Increase coherence and
commonality of instruction in terms of academic
expectations, pacing and content coverage,
formative assessments, intervention and support.
 Alignment
of Curriculum, Instruction, and
Assessment: Build a college-going culture where
all students graduate with an expectation of
transition to postsecondary education, training,
and/or employment.
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Key Areas for Improvement
(cont’d)
 Data
Systems and Achievement Monitoring:
Enhance accessibility and use of data to identify
and target instructional support, provide reteaching, and measure effectiveness of
interventions.
 Professional
Development: Reach consensus on a
finite number of district-wide professional
development foci for long-term support and
reinforcement.
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LEA Plan – Goal 1 (Curriculum,
Instruction, and Assessment)
 Goal
1A: Proficiency in Reading/Language Arts
 Goal
1B: Proficiency in Mathematics
 Goal
1C: Proficiency for High Priority Students
 Goal
1D: Effective Teaching and Administration
 Goal
1E: Involvement, Implementation, &
Monitoring
 Goal
1F: Support for Schools in Corrective Action
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LEA Plan – Goal 2 (EL Students)
 Goal
2A: AMAO 1, Annual Progress Learning
English
 Goal
2B: AMAO 2, English Proficiency
 Goal
2C: AMAO 3, AYP for EL Subgroup
 Goal
2D: High Quality Professional Development
 Goal
2E: Parent & Community Participation
 Goal
2F: Parental Notification
 Goal
2G: Services for Immigrant Students
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Other LEA Plan Goals
 Goal
3: Highly-Qualified Teachers
 Goal
4: Not applicable; no longer required
 Goal
5: Increase Graduation/Decrease Dropout
Rates
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Goal 1A – Proficiency in
Reading/Language Arts
Increase the percentage of students scoring
Proficient or Advanced in Reading/Language
Arts to 60% or higher, and reduce the
proportion scoring Far Below Basic or Below
Basic in to 15% or lower by June 2016.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Reading/Language Arts
 Ensure
that instruction is standards-aligned,
utilizing common scope and sequence, and
tested with common assessments.
 Convene
English Curriculum and Assessment
Team to develop and/or refine course pacing
guides, district benchmark tests, and formative
assessments.
 Implement and monitor key instructional
strategies (e.g., academic language, close
analytic reading, and writing prompts) in all
classrooms.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Reading/Language Arts
 Ensure
that every student has access to
standards-aligned instructional materials.
 Identify
and select “bridge” materials for
transition to CCSS.
 Research, evaluate, and select non-bridge
CCSS materials.
 Develop CCSS-aligned study guides and
formative assessments.
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Goal 1B – Proficiency in
Mathematics
Increase the percentage of students scoring
Proficient or Advanced in Algebra I to 40%
or higher in Algebra I and 50% or higher in
Geometry; reduce the proportion scoring Far
Below Basic or Below Basic in Algebra I to
25% or lower and 15% or lower in Geometry
by June 2016.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Mathematics
 Ensure
that instruction is standards-aligned,
utilizing common scope and sequence, and
tested with common assessments.
 Convene
Math Curriculum and Assessment Team
to develop and/or refine course pacing guides,
district benchmark tests, and formative
assessments.
 Implement and monitor key instructional
strategies (e.g., Modeling and Discourse) in line
with CCSS Mathematical Practice Standards.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Mathematics
 Ensure
that every student has access to
standards-aligned instructional materials.
 Identify
and select “bridge” materials for
transition to CCSS.
 Research, evaluate, and select non-bridge
CCSS materials.
 Develop CCSS-aligned study guides and
formative assessments.
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Goal 1C – Proficiency for High
Priority Students
Close the English Learner achievement gap
to no more than 15% (AYP) and no more than
25 points (API) by June 2016.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for High Priority Students
 Ensure
that every student working below
grade level in ELA is provided with strategic or
intensive intervention with clear entry/exit
criteria, curriculum, monitoring, and
counseling; provide extended learning time by
adding 7th and/or 8th periods for interventions.
Support classes for low level 9th grade readers.
 Double-block of ELA for targeted 10th graders.
 Accelerated Language for long-term EL students both
during day and in extended day settings.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for High Priority Students
 Ensure
that every student working below
grade level in Math is provided with strategic
or intensive intervention with clear entry/exit
criteria, curriculum, monitoring, and
counseling; provide extended learning time by
adding 7th and/or 8th periods for interventions.
Algebra I support classes for low level 9th grade
students.
 Algebra semester re-start policy for Fall failures.
 More relevance, application, and hands-on
experiences as part of Math intervention.
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Goal 1D – Effective Teaching &
Administration (Prof Development)
Come to consensus on a finite number of key,
research-based instructional strategies that
will be reinforced and supported over at
least three years with ongoing professional
development, collaboration, and monitoring.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Professional Development
 Provide
standards-based PD to all teachers to
deepen implementation of key instructional
strategies tied to cross-curricular literacy:
Structure, content, and implications of ELA CCSS.
 Explicit Direct Instruction for lesson design.
 Academic Language and Close Analytic Reading.
 Six Traits of Writing.
 English 3D/Accelerated Language (ELD faculty).
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Professional Development
 Provide
standards-based PD to all teachers to
deepen implementation of key instructional
strategies tied to cross-curricular numeracy:
Structure, content, and implications of Math CCSS,
especially the 8 Mathematical Practice Standards.
 Explicit Direct Instruction for lesson design.
 Increased use of Math manipulatives and classroom
technology.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Professional Development
 Provide
regular opportunities for data-based
collaboration for all teachers.
Guidance on development of Professional Learning
Communities focused on common approaches to
lesson design, data analysis, re-teaching and
intervention.
 Bimonthly analysis of student work tied to openended prompts and/or scenario-based problems with
rubric scoring.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Professional Development
 Provide
leadership training for site
administrators on:
Transition to CCSS.
 Support and monitoring of instruction.
 Protocols for classroom walkthroughs and feedback
to teachers.
 Use of assessment data.
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Goal 1E – Involvement,
Implementation & Monitoring
By June 2016, CUHSD will become an
information-driven district where data is
accessible, analyzed, and used to identify
target student subgroups for instructional
support, target possible areas for reteaching, and measure the effectiveness of
instructional interventions.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Program Monitoring
 Improve
data quality and access, especially
use of the Aeries.net and it’s analytic tool.
 Build
data capacity and fluency among staff to
access, use, and report data.
 Collaborate
around data analysis for goalsetting, instructional planning, and design of
interventions.
 Evaluate
effectiveness of curricular innovations
and interventions.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps for
Parent/Community Involvement
 Involve
and engage staff, parents, and
community in academic improvement
strategies.
 Enhance
school-home communication via
smaller meetings with parents organized by
targeted subgroups and grade levels.
 Implement automated parent notification system
with ongoing monitoring.
 Promote community awareness of high school
activities, events, extracurricular offerings, and
academic priorities.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Articulation
 Increase
articulation with feeder middle
schools around calendars, data sharing, and
intervention programs/services.
 Increase
articulation with postsecondary
institutions around college and career
readiness.
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Goal 1F – Support for Schools in
Corrective Action
Provide differentiated support to schools
based on Program Improvement status that
address reasons for PI progression.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Differentiated School Support
 School
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Improvement Strategies
Expanding intervention programs and services.
Funding TOSA to monitor interventions.
Addressing needs of 9th grade repeaters.
 New
Curriculum
 Providing
access to Read 180 and Accelerated
Language.
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Key Strategies and Action Steps
for Differentiated School Support
 School
Restructuring
 Hiring
new staff.
 Extending the school day.
 Phasing out contract-based instruction.
 Expanding online credit recovery options.
 External
Support
 Funding
Public Works needs assessment and
provision of site-based recommendations.
 Soliciting proposals for further external
expertise.
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Next Steps
 Communicating
the LEA Plan to site-based
stakeholders (staff, parents, students, and
community).
 Transforming
LEA Plan into a usable set of
tasks/priorities to guide actions during
Summer and into 2013-14 school year.
 Ensuring
LEA Plan is supported and monitored
by school, district, and community leaders.
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